Eight mile out-and-back to White Rocks from Gathland on Appalachian Trail yesterday.
Today: twenty-seven holes at Seneca (that's a birdie on three last year):
Tonight, after dinner in Chinatown, we see Stephin Merritt plays twenty-six songs, titles A through Z.
He's here Monday night. Probs won't get there—absent a mind-blowingly amazing review from the likes of you. Saw MF with Wisdoc a few years back. Great show. Got ticket to Ride Friday night and can hardly stand it.
ReplyDeletei listened to the song 'when you're old and lonely'
ReplyDeletei looked up the songwriter on wikipedia - he is having an interesting life
on a lower order of magnitude than he suffers, i can relate to hearing problems - last week i was changing the battery on a smoke alarm, and had some difficulty (the connectors were bent, it turned out) - so i got rather too much of the alarm sound, and even a week later i found going to a concert produced ringing in my ears - and this was not a rock concert,but an a capella concert (of the groups there, i most liked the capital hearings, with vox pop my second favorite)
with respect to the musical group name 'magnetic fields' - over the weekend missus charley and i watched the episode of the cosmos series - the new one with neal degrasse tyson as host - in which faraday is depicted inventing the generator and the electric motor and coming up with the concept of 'magnetic field' - but he lacked the math skills to write the equations for it - maxwell did that - tyson claimed that faraday was in the same ballpark, scientific-genius-wise, as newton (the best ever, he says) and einstein
although your posting title implies aarghitude, the body of the text is aargh-free - who knows if it is good or bad?
Jim, if you've the time and the $$$ go. Was charming and tingling.
ReplyDeleteCharley, Merritt would put a finger in his left ear as soon as a song was over to keep the noise of applause from hurting as much if he hadn't. He clearly finds performing painful, so bad is his hearing.
Re: the post title - see the post tag.